This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications to establish a Resource Development Network (RDN) focused on the infrastructure needed to promote and support coordination, collaboration, and innovation across deeply phenotyped longitudinal behavioral and social studies of aging.
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NOFO calls for investigator teams to design an innovative network that will serve the field at large and advance collaboration and coordination among studies.
RDN activities must include:
The creation of a publicly-available meta-data catalog on a web-based platform that will identify and describe existing small- to mid-size deeply phenotyped longitudinal studies designed to investigate factors affecting health and well-being in later life and characterized by rich psychological, social, behavioral, and biobehavioral content; outreach to investigators that will stimulate innovation, collaboration, dissemination, and utilization of the meta-data catalog and associated datasets; methodological consultation services for investigators interested in data harmonization projects and/or coordinated data analysis with deeply phenotyped longitudinal studies; and support for next generation trainees and early career investigators to initiate data harmonization and/or coordinated data-analysis projects utilizing deeply phenotyped longitudinal studies to answer questions relevant to aging and the adult lifespan.